A girdle is something that wraps around something else, such as part of the body.
It is restricting and meant for support.
Jeremiah was told to get himself a girdle and to tie it around his loins but not to put any water on it.
After he followed these instructions he was then told to take it to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
When, after several days he was told to retrieve it he found that it was marred and good for nothing.
This is a lesson about the hole in the rock and how it binds people to something that is more than the imagination.
The vision shown to me of a group of people collected together in the peak of the hill at dawn explains the lesson.
They were starring towards a rock held aloft on a pole in the center of which was a hole.
As the sun rose the light passed through the hole and divided into a star of all the colours of the rainbow.
They were overawed and bowed their heads quickly as though in the presence of a god.
This was the 'Zoro Aster' or morning star and the Mother God of the Islamic religion of Babylon.
The holed stone is responsible for many terms, such as 'hole-eye' or 'holy'.
Until quite recently people would pass through a hole in a stone in countries in Europe in expectation of being healed of a medical condition.
They passed children through it as a form of baptism.
There is no power there, however, but they can't stop their behaviour, The Spirit condemns them in Verse 10 by calling them 'evil people' and describing their dedication to the false gods which have bound them as a girdle to the practices.
But in Verse 11 it is the House of Israel that is bound to the Spirit in the same way.
Because they are filled with the Spirit they are described as bottles filled with wine.